THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMsBURG, PA. THE COLUMBIAN. M.OOMSKURG, FA. THUKSDAV, AUCit'ST 17, 1905. Untrreit at t t I'unl OJUcr, Bloom utmrg. Pa. an nrrmd rlarr matter, Marrn 1, 1888. LOCALNEWS. Legal advertisements on page 7. .. . . - Japanese dead are buried in a squatting posture, chin upon knees. - m The strong Milton team will be hete for a game with the locals to morrow. The Bloottishurg Cricket Club is scheduled to play at Williamsport August 26th. Mike Devaney has resigned his position with J. R. Fowler, and will take charge of the hotel at Emmons, Mine. Patti's voice has brought her in more than $5,000,000. Her best year's income was $350,000. Vanity Fair, March and Two step by Chas. P. Elwell, on sale at all music stores. Second edition, 25 cents tf. George Alleman has resigned his position at Moyer Brcs., and will on September 1st, enter the cm ploy of W. S. Rishton. O. B. Melhck has the contract for the laying of 12,000 feet of cement flooring in the E. B. Tustin mansion on Market street. The townspeople are getting base ball hungry. More than a dozen were beard to query why there wasn't a game on Satureay. From present indications the Silk mill employees picnic at Edgewood Park, Shamokin, Satur day, will be largely attended. Tohn Girton has resigned his rx sition at the Silk Mill and gone to Danville to accept a position as clerk at Harry fields restaurant. , Lynch, formerly of the Normal pitched lor Pittston Brothers on Saturday and held Berwick down to five hits, winning the game 3 to a. The D. L. & W. station and fieigbt house are being repainted The new dress will add greatly to the appearance of the bmlcungs. Lives of grafters oft remind us We may make a pile sublime If the public does not find us Out and start us doing time. m . William H. Coffman arrived borne from Orange, N. J., on Sunday, and will go back to his former posi tion in the United States Express office. Boyd Prentis, who has been a motorman on the Catawissa division of the trolley road tor two years, has taken a run on the Berwick end cf the line. Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Long of Railroad Street, were befelt of an eight months old daughter on Satur day. Rev. Tinker conducted funeral services on Monr'ay, The Montour township school directors held a meeMng Saturday evening, and elected Miss Lucy Baldy of Catawissa to teach the Mensch school during the coming year. . - Edward Appleman and Miss Gertrude DeWitt, daughter of J. M. DeWitt, departed this morning for Binghamton, N. Y., where they will enter into a matrimonial al liance. Members of St. Columba's church and their friends are hold ing their annual picnic at Kleim's Grove today. Danville has sent up a good sized delegation, and a very delightful time is being had. Dancing will be a feature this after noon and this evening a minstrel entertainment will be given. A Man's feet are better judges of shoes than he is ! Wliun you luck your's into a pair of "Keith's Konqueror" Shoes they'll tell you they're com fortable at last. $3.50 and $4.00 Chas. M.Evans, Acet rou Bloomsuuug Hon. Grant Herring delivered a forceful and excellent addre s on "The Birthright of An American Citizen", at the P. O. S. of A. re union held in Benton Tuesday evening. Will Derr is critically ill at Har isburg. A message was received yesterday saying that his death is momentarily expected. His wife and brother, Frank, left immediate ly for that city. Miss Alice Kreigh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Kreigh, died at the home of her parents on West Sixth street, Tuesday evening, after an extended illness with catarrh of the lungs. I The Farmers picnic at Grass Mere Park today will be largely attended. The special train on the B. & S. this morning took up nine I cars all well filled, and the regular . carried many excursionists. Chas. P. Elwell will continue to teach d-ring the summer months. Instruction in pianoforte, violin, harmony and composition. Send for circular or call at 233 West Third street, Bloomsburg. tf , While clearing a plot of ground, for the purpose of playing ball Eugene Cad man of Millville, aged ten years, son of Mr. and Mrs Ben). Cadman accidentally cut his right wrist with the sickle. Robert Sharpless preferred charge of assault and battery against Edward Bowers on Friday. Bowers was arraigned belore 'Squire Tacobv where the complainant agreed to settle. Bowers paid the costs. Miss Mattie DeRemer, sister of Thomas DeRemer, of Bloomsburg, and William DeRemer, formerly of town, but now hviug at Wilkes Barre, died at her home in Hazle ton, Monday evening, aged 32 years. E. R. Sponsler of Harrisburg, treasurer of the Columbia & Mon tour Electric Railwav Company, spent Monday in town. In com pany with Superintendent Ter willeger he took a run over the road. Elwood Parks of Waller and Miss Sarah Wagner, ot Divide, were the principals in a nuptial event which was solemnized at Rohrsburg Saturday evening. Rev. W. R. Mather, performed the cere mony. Robert E. Hartman has placed a stationary show case on the Market street side of his store. The case is largely of glass, with electric lights and will afford an excellent opportunity to display his goods to better advantage. J. Wesley Moyer, who was awarded the contract to furnish the school supplies lor the coining school year has received them and is now taking them to the High School building so that they will be on hand when the schools open. William Kashner has returned to his position as foreman in the black smithing department of the Ameri can Car and Foundry Co. His duties are lighter and his salary has been materially increased, all of which goes to prove that the Com pany appreciates his services. Mr. and Mrs. T. II. Mercer cave a delightful party for their daugh ter Irene and her guest Kenay Geddis. on Tuesdav evenine. The paity took a trolley ride to Colum bia Park where the evening was spent in dancing. On their return to the residence refreshments were served. Miss Geddis is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Geddis, of Elmira, N. Y. Your classes may lie partly riulit. and pro- pnrtionately helpful; but if they ore not en. lirely right you are not Retting all of the benefit you should. ONLY medical eye peciulists can determine exactly what lenses are needed. Henry W, Champlln, M. 0., OCULIST, Frank Boone lost a good sized calf on the Columbia & Montour trolley rond Tuesday afternoon. The car was passing a clump ol bushes when the animal jumped out upon the track, and was run over. The car was derailed and traffic was con siderably delayed. Dr. J. J. Brown of Market street on Friday, assisted by Dr. Shultz of Danville, removed the left eye lrom Mrs. Agnes r.ynn of Danville. Mrs Lynn is seventy eight years of age, and has suffered intense pain for several years and finally lost the sight of her left eye. John Hummel, of Bloomsburg, now playing with Holyoke, Mass., his been sold by that club to Brooklyn, of the National League, and will report there Sept. 4th. John has advanced with lightning strides, his rise from infancy, as it were, to maturity in the base ball world has been almost incompre hensible. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Whitney have arrived in town from their honeymoon which was spent in the Adirondack Mountains. During their stay there Mr. Whitney caught two bass, weighing six pounds and four ounces and four pounds and two ounces respectively. The former was the largest fish caught at the resort this season. E. George Hedden, the genial ad vance representative of the Edwin J. Hadley moving picture Co., was in town on Tuesday. He says the exhibition this season will be the most elaborate and complete ever seen in this or any other country. The program will include spectac ular, sensational, comic, magic, story pictures and views of travel. Have you any especially fine sheep or lambs this summer? Why not let your neighbors see them at the fair this fall? You might sell some at good figures. The boys would like nothing better than to show their stock for a few days at the fair. It would make them proud of their sheep and help them to love the old home better. The Idlers broke camp on Tues day and returned home. The boys were not so successful in fishing cs in previous years, but this did not detract lrom the numerous other pleasures of camp life, and all re port having had a thoroughly en joyable time. Their tanned faces indicate a vigorously healthy coudi tion. Thos. B. Moore and Harry J Achenbach on Monday broke ground for the construction of their bowling alley. The building is to be 100 by 22, to be built of the best possible material and set upon a foundation of concrete. The pro moters hope to have the alleys com pleted and in operation before Fair time. If the venture proves sue cessful, they propose to build and operate alleys in a number of other towns hereabouts. While repairiug some trouble on the telephone line during the pro gress of a heavy electrical storm, Sunday afternoon, Edward Moore, formerly of Bloomsburg, now of Berwick was knocked from a pole by a flash of lightning. Fortun ately the straps about his body caught on the pole after he had dropped about twenty feet, and pre vented him from striking the ground. He was dazed for a time and slightly bruised, which is con sidered a very fortunate escape. We were reminded of the wis dom of David when he said "All men are liars." The incident oc- cured on East Fifth street, near the Rescue Fire Company's hose house, on Tuesday. Some boys, pretty well along in their teens, were talking on various topics. There arose a disagreement, and one fellow, instead of saying "all men are liars," picked out one and said it to him, and the next minute he was picking himself up off the ground. In a large panoramic photograph of the base ball game between the New York and Pittsburg National League teams, played at Exposition Park, Allegheny, on Saturday, August 5th, and witnessed by eigteen thousand, three hundred and eighty-three persons, the great est crowd on record, our townsman Boyd F. Maize is distinctly shown viewing the contest lrom the rear ot the first base line. It was a great game. The score at the btginniug of the ninth inning was a tie, five to five A difference in. opiuion as to whether a Pittsburg player was safe at third base led to a disagree ment, and New York refused to contiuue the playing, when the umpire, fearing trouble promptly forfeited the game to Pittsburg 9 to o It is a remarkable photograph and was given away as a supple ment with The Index PURELY PERSONAL K. 1). lcn!lcr went to Harrisburg on liussiness ycstcrd.iy. t.nwrence Tonli-y, made a business trip to SI) amok in Tuesday. Tho. H Moore and Harry J. AJienlmch, spent Sunday in Jlcnton. I'crt Shol-.-s of Ili.rwick, spent Sunday afternoon in Iiloomslur(. Mrs. K. M. l.aubath, ol Tories, was in town on Monday shopping. Koli't, I)ent made a business trip to Will nnisport on Monday. (eo It. Mummer, of Klk Grove, transact ed business in town yesterday. Mr. II, S. Stoker, of Stillwater, was no ticed on our streets on Monday. John Gross spent Monday in Milton look ing after his business interests. Mrs. Dr. I. W. Willits is visiting her ton, Mr. J. C. Keifsnyder at Scranton. Joseph Memaree h:is returned home from Allodia where he has been employed. Mr. nnd Mrs. M. I. LuU attended the Bclles.reunion at Shickshinny on Saturday. Orvie O'Brien, one of Benton's well known residents, spent Tuesday afternoon in town M iss Martha Edgar has returned to her home in Wilkes Baire, alter a pleasant visit ia town. Miss Ella Stoker of Orangeville, K F. L) is assisting at the "Republican" office for two weeks. James Knorr of Wilkes Baire, is spending this week with relatives and friends in the vicinity of Orangeville and Forks. THE CHOICE Of k SCHOOL. Many of our readers are now selecting the school which they will atteud during the ensuing year. We offer a word of advice. Select the Best. Nothing else is so good as the best. It's ttue of schools especially. It is our opinion that the Liter ary Institute and State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pa., has no superiors, and few equals. Send for a catalog. Write the Principal. State how far you have gone in your education, what you desire to prepare tor; whether for teaching, for college, for business, or a course in music. You'll get help and good advice. Do it today. . President Eveland ia Williamsport- President Eveland of Dickinson Seminary, was in Williamsport on Monday and held a conference with Dean McCloskey. Forty five new students in addition to the regular ones have already enrolled for the coming year. Wny is a Newspaper Like a Woman? A western newspaper offered a prize for the best answer to the conundrum wny is a newspaper like a woman?' ' The prize was won by a lady in Oklahoma who sent the following answer, "Because every man should have one of his own and not run after his neighbor's." Exceptions Not Beard The exceptions to the granting of a charter to the Liberty Fire Lompauy were not heard before J. G. Jayne, Esq., on Saturday as was expected and the hearing was postponea indefinitely. Death of Mrs. Gilbert. The wife of Rev. R. H. Gilbert, pastor of the Methodist church at Berwick, died at the Methodist Hospital, Philadelphia, Saturday night. She had been under treat ment for but a few days. An Experiment. The Bell Telephone company is making an experiment in some sections that undoubtedly will be come general in the future. It is the placing of automatic pay station on telephone poles in the country districts. This gives the ruralite an opportunity to send out a mes sage at any time he may see fit, ana is also a great advantage to the traveling public as messages may be sent on ahead, arrangements made to transact business at a certain point or time, etc. The farmer's picnic of Columbia, Montour and Northumberland counties, which was to have been held at De Witt's Park, South Dan ville, last Saturday, was on account of the disagreeable weather condi tions, postponed 'till Saturday, September 2nd. The decision whether to hold or contiuue the picnic on Saturday, was let to the judgment of the farmers at the curb stone market at Danville Sat urday morning and a big majority favored a continuance, which coin cided with the committee. The news of the postponement, however says the Danville Neivs, did not be come generally known and as a re sult, in spite of thj inclement weather, many farmers gathered at the park, some of them having driven many miles. They ate their dinners in the woods, but rain in the afternoon compelled them to seek the pavilliou for shelter. OASTOniA. Ban th Tha Kind You Have Always Bought Blgnatur of The Linen Sale Now being held by THE CLARK STORE offers buyers of Linens for all household use in the way of Table Linens, Pattern Cloths, Napkins, Towels, Lunch Cloths, Towelings by the yard, etc. Most acceptable values which it will pay any thrifty person to investigate and procure linens now at the special prices this Linen Sale offers. Come and see them. These linens are our own regular stock no linen bought for a special sale, but good dependable stock. SPECIAL Bleached table linen 72 inches wide at 1.00 yd. All linen napkins, fine goods at 1.32 dozen. See the 37k. table linens. COUNTERPANES. We will continue the sale of these at 85c, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 2.00, 2.25, 3.35. Shrunken Muslin. Yard wide at 1 5c. yard. 36in. linen suitings 30c. and 50c. a yard. Wash Dress Goods. . All at big reductions this week. See them. 75c. for Trimmed Hats worth 2.00 to 3.00. vTArjnWrQ or men' 11 v viviiiuu sizes at The Clark Store. TALK NO. 67. SAVE YOUR EYESIGHT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE The poper care of the eyes will save all the worries and miseries that neglect of them will surely bring. Correctly fitted glasses will remedy the ills already begun. Skill and experience alone can adjust glasses properly. O-GO- "W Hess, Optician and Jeweler, BLOOMSBURG, PENNA 5 Alexander Brothers & Co., DEALERS IN : Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Confec- : tionery and Nuts. o Pino Candies. Fresh Every Week. Pennt Goods a. Specialty. SOLE AGENTS FOR 5 JUPITER, KING OSCAR, WRITTEN GUARANTEE, COLUMBIAN, ETC. Also F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco. I ALEXANDER BROS. & CO., Bloomsburg, Pa. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF Carpets, Rugs, Matting and Draperies, Oil Cloth and Window Curtains You Will Find a Nice Line at W, M BBO WEB'S BLOOMSBURG, PENN'A. eqtq; For the Satisfactory Kind in Up-to-date , Styles, go to CapweU's Studio, (Over Ilartmau'i Store) BLOOMSBURG FA. SEE THESE A pure linen Damask unbleached, good width at 45c yard. Bleached cotton table linen 56in. at 2 He. yd. Damask and h u c k towels, good size at 22Jc. each. Black Mohairs. English make, fine, bright finish at 50c, 73c, 85c, 1. 00 a yard. Rain Coats, Covert Jackets. At specially reduced prices this week. 27in. Black Taffeta Silk at 75c yd. 36in. at i.oo. women and children, all all prices. J Mund model, tkutuu or iilmto c. ..iv ution lor free report on patentability. For free book. F-i InAUc-MABKS T PPosite U. S. Pate n t Offic WASHINGTON D.C. Wp promptly obtain II. 8 anciliwIiJnV'V'
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